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teardrop on eyelashes

Can coronavirus spread through tears?

A new study finds that it is unlikely that infected patients are shedding the virus through their tears.

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer in Health March 26, 2020

Red Rock Canyon, Las Vegas

U.S. national parks waive entry fees to help people get outside

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 19, 2020

folding clothes

7 decluttering projects for when you're stuck at home

Cleaning & Organizing

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 19, 2020

medical workers moving a patient

How to stop future pandemics in 3 easy steps

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer March 18, 2020

shopping list

How to write a better grocery list

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 18, 2020

Life in Paris park

Paris closes its wonderful parks

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 18, 2020

frog on toilet

Don't flush anything other than toilet paper

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 18, 2020

black and white photo of maid washing woman's hair in tub

The best bar soaps for every body part

Cleaning & Organizing

Lindsey Reynolds

By Lindsey Reynolds March 17, 2020

cat's playing with glue in vintage ad

What is glue made of?

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer March 17, 2020

grocery store with outdoor display

Want to reduce food waste? Add more grocery stores

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 17, 2020

How to be social while social distancing

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer March 16, 2020

Ignaz Semmelweis

A brief history of handwashing

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 16, 2020

empty school cafeteria

Low-income kids need school lunches more than ever now

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 16, 2020

Dr Bronner's pure castile soap

What is castile soap? Uses and benefits

Cleaning & Organizing

Katherine Martinko

By Katherine Martinko March 16, 2020

Pi printout

It's Pi Day in the USA

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 14, 2020

Hi neighbors

Social distancing doesn’t mean we can’t stick together

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 13, 2020

My lecture hall is empty now

How the coronavirus may change education and teaching

Lloyd Alter

By Lloyd Alter March 13, 2020

TB treatment

When you need antibiotics and when you do not

Melissa Breyer

By Melissa Breyer March 13, 2020

Contagion movie ad on a bus

Contagion screenwriter talks Jude Law's anti-science blogger character (video)

Brian Merchant

By Brian Merchant March 13, 2020

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Broad Hospital

Broad Sustainable Buildings builds a COVID hospital in two days

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In praise of maximalism

Homemade raisins

The truth about raisins and pesticides

Toronto streetcar right of way

It's time to take back the streets for people who walk, run, or bike

bowl of beans

9 reasons to eat a lot of beans

tool bench

Man sets up camera to see who was secretly cleaning his shed at night (video)

movie marquis with coronavirus advice

Common household products that can kill the coronavirus

Portrait of physicist Albert Einstein sitting in an armchair and smoking a pipe, circa 1932.

Why Albert Einstein hated capitalism

dreaming octopus

Sleeping octopus's changing camouflage narrates her dream (video)

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